...How would you feel if that one person you despise the most forced you to move out of your house all the way into a new state. This is what happened to the cherokee indians during 1830 when the indian removal act was signed. The cherokee had been living in Georgia for a hundred years before the first Georgians arrived and were forced to move west into Louisiana. There were many reasons for this act to happen however it was as if the Cherokee had no say against it. The government was very biased for its people and did little to support the cherokee. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was not justified because the cherokees were getting kicked out of their own homelands, they were treated poorly, and only a small majority of the cherokee agreed with...
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...APUSH Study Guide 8 A weak Confederacy and the Constitution, 1776-1790 Themes/Constructs: The federal Constitution represented a moderately conservative reaction against the democratilizing effects of the Revolution and the Articles of Confederation. The American Revolution was not a radical transformation like the French or Russian revolutions, but it produced political innovations and some social change in the direction of greater equality and democracy. The American Revolution did not overturn the social order, but it did produce substantial changes in social customs, political institutions, and ideas about society and government. Among the changes were the separation of church and state in some places, the abolition of slavery in the North, written political constitutions, and a shift in political power from the eastern seaboard toward the frontier. The first weak government, the Articles of Confederation, was unable to exercise real authority, although it did successfully deal with the western lands issue. The Confederation’s weakness in handling foreign policy, commerce and the Shays Rebellion spurred the movement to alter the Articles. Instead of revising the Articles, the well-off delegates to the Constitutional Convention created a charter for a whole new government. In a series of compromises, the convention produced a plan that provided for a vigorous central government, a strong executive, the protection for property, while still upholding republican...
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